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Women in science Biographies
Discover the amazing stories of famous women in sciences who changed the world!
Annie Jump Cannon
Creating a simple system to classify stars that astronomers still use today
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Discovering what stars are made of
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Discovering a rule about special stars that helped scientists measure distances in space and understand the size of the universe.
Vera Rubin
Discovering strong evidence for dark matter by studying how galaxies spin
